Anyone ever successfully unlocked an iphone???

January 05, 2018, 07:10 AM

rbert0005

quote:
Originally posted by David W:
I guess I am in the minority here, ATT unlocked our phones within 24 hours after requesting it via some url they sent us to.

Same here.

Bob

January 05, 2018, 07:59 AM

Dusty78

That’s one thing I like about Verizon. all of their phones are unlocked from the start.

January 05, 2018, 08:36 AM

rbert0005

That’s a new one on me.
Why would they be branded if they were unlocked?

Bob

January 05, 2018, 08:38 AM

Dusty78

quote:
Originally posted by rbert0005:
That’s a new one on me.
Why would they be branded if they were unlocked?

Bob

Some sort of deal with the FCC. Every 4G LTE phone from Verizon is unlocked. They started around the time the IPhone 6 came out IIRC

January 05, 2018, 09:43 AM

architect

All "unlock" implies on a GSM phone is that SiM cards from arbitrary vendors will be recognized. In other words, the OP will not receive any benefit from the unlock until he obtains a SiM card from another vendor and replaces his old one.

In fact, phones don't even "know" whether they are locked or unlocked. What matters is whether they can access the SiM that is inserted in them at the time. The "lock" in question is to a specific provider's SiM identity.

Some phones have slots for two SiMs, for a primary and backup provider. These are usually unlocked out of the box, rather than "double locked."

So you really can't tell if "the unlock worked" until you insert a new provider's SiM card. If the phone sees it, the phone is unlocked, if not, well...

January 05, 2018, 09:47 AM

sreding

I unlocked my galaxy s6 with at&t without any issues, but I've heard it's more of a hassle with apple phones.

January 05, 2018, 10:34 AM

Augen

quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
So did you leave it plugged in for the few hours? Maybe that is what I am doing wrong.

Not plugged in. But we had completed our contract as well as others have mentioned.

January 05, 2018, 11:22 AM

Black92LX

quote:
Originally posted by architect:
All "unlock" implies on a GSM phone is that SiM cards from arbitrary vendors will be recognized. In other words, the OP will not receive any benefit from the unlock until he obtains a SiM card from another vendor and replaces his old one.

In fact, phones don't even "know" whether they are locked or unlocked. What matters is whether they can access the SiM that is inserted in them at the time. The "lock" in question is to a specific provider's SiM identity.

Some phones have slots for two SiMs, for a primary and backup provider. These are usually unlocked out of the box, rather than "double locked."

So you really can't tell if "the unlock worked" until you insert a new provider's SiM card. If the phone sees it, the phone is unlocked, if not, well...

There very much is a benefit to me for it to be unlocked. I am going to sell them to one of the buyback companies and they give about $50 more per phone unlocked compared to them being locked to T-Mobile.
I have 2 to get rid of so an extra $100 is a nic benefit to me.

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January 05, 2018, 11:23 AM

HRK

ATT unlocked my old 5s phones (3 of them) within 24 hours of the request no problemo...

Artie, Just turn on WiFi and then you can stream data from your in home wifi network to your old iphone.

It's not going to work outside of the range of the wifi, so you may have to put repeaters all over the farm

January 18, 2018, 04:34 PM

Black92LX

These clowns are really pissing me off.

The 6S unlocked no issue but the SE will not.

Have called them multiple times and they say they will try to send the activation again.